Journey Planner

[Smylers]

James Laver writes:

> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.  Does anybody know a way of making the TFL Journey Planner show
> > the best route between two places only on transport which has the
> > normal zone-based billing?
> 
> The heathrow connect does not incur additional charges afaia, i've
> taken it on a one-way train ticket.

Yeah, paper tickets seem to be the only way of using it to Heathrow.

> If you're using oyster PAYG, there are additional national rail fares
> of course.

Between Paddington and Hayes & Harlington travelling on Heathrow Connect
with an Oyster Card doesn't have an additional Nation Rail fare: it's
the same price as a Tube journey between stations in those zones.

But for the last stage -- between Hayes & Harlington and Heathrow --
Oyster Cards and Travelcards are not valid at all; you have to buy a
single or return ticket for that part of the journey.  That's what I'm
trying to avoid.

> I've often found it useful to look on google maps, pick out the
> nearest station to my destination and tell it to go there and then
> seperately plot the route from the last station to the destination (so
> that it picks up buses).

Yeah, that's what I was doing (but trying it with various nearby
stations).  Then I had this idea "Hey, a computer could automate this
task".  One day ...

Thanks.

Smylers